Coaster Coming To Dorney

February 20, 1986|The Morning Call

This new super coaster, the key to a $2.5-million Dorney Park expansion project, is on its way to the South Whitehall Township amusement complex by ship. Purchased in Brazil last November, the Colossus is one of two double- loop, corkscrew coasters in the world. Expected to arrive in the United States between March 9 and 15, the coaster will be trucked to Dorney Park in 27, 40-foot tractor-trailers. A team of technicians from Schwarzkopf, the West German manufacturers of the attraction, will assemble the coaster in the area of the former children's petting zoo. Township officials granted preliminary approval to the coaster expansion on Tuesday, and if final approvals fall in timely succession, Colossus should be at Dorney Park's season premiere April 19.